Nozomi shows world champ the exit in HK Open

Second seed PV Sindhu faced a marathon battle against Japanese fourth seed Nozomi Okuhara which lasted an hour and 24 minutes. (TOI Photo)NEW DELHI: The Indian challenge came to an end as shuttlers PV Sindhu and Ajay Jayaram lost their respective ...

Japan's Okuhara overcame the world and European champion 21-13 21-9 in a dominant display, and she will now meet sixth seed Tai in Sunday's showdown. Okuhara quickly established a 10-4 lead in the first game and she never looked back from there, ...

Comment · print · T T T+· T- TOPICS The 19-year-old shuttler P.V. Sindhu, who retained the Macau Grand Prix Gold women's singles title last week-end, feels that for many of the players from outside China, there is some sort of a ...

SOUTH Korea's Son Wan Ho stunned world champion Chen Long of China to claim the Hong Kong Open crown yesterday. Wan Ho, who last defeated the World No 2 in 2010, worked hard for 57 minutes before wrapping up the match 21-19, 21-16. The title ...

Son, seeded sixth, took 57 minutes to defeat Chen, the overwhelming favorite in the absence of world No1 Lee Chong Wei and Chinese great Lin Dan. In the women's final, Tai Tzu- ying of Taiwan beat Japan's Nozomi Okuhara 21-19, 21-11. Okuhara ...

CNA file photo Taipei, Nov. 23 (CNA) Taiwan's Tai Tzu-ying took the top prize Saturday in the women's singles finals event of the Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships, part of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) world superseries tournaments. ...

Malaysia's top ranked women's singles shuttler Tee Jing Yee pulled off a sensation … Malaysia's top ranked women's singles shuttler Tee Jing Yee pulled off a sensation China's Wang Yihan 21-19, 14-21, 21-15 in 51 minutes to book a place in the ...

PETALING JAYA: Tee Jing Yi's gallant run in the Hong Kong Open has ended. The 23-year-old female singles shuttler found world champion Carolina Marin a tough nut to crack, going down 8-21, 17-21 in the quarter-finals on Friday. Jing Yi went ...

China Open champion Kidambi Srikanth continued his big-hunting run, bringing down Taipei's World No.8 Chou Tien Chen at the season's last Super series event at Hong Kong, fighting back against the seventh seed to win 18-21, 22-20, 21-16. The ...